New Mount and Pet Revealed, Updated Character Expressions and Shirvallah, Warlords Cinematic Image

New Mount and Pet Revealed

On Twitter last night, Senior Game Designer Jonathan LeCraft revealed an upcoming mount and pet. The Emerald Drake mount will resemble Emerald Drake from The Oculus and will be a reward for obtaining 250 mounts.

Warlords Cinematic Teaser Image

World of Warcraft's Twitter released this teaser image for the Warlords of Draenor Cinematic this morning:

Updated Claws of Shirvallah Model

The special cat form has been modified--players wear loincloths and jewelry while shapeshifted.

Humorous Garrison Abilities

Over the weekend we covered some amusing Garrison Missions, like Path of the Titans and The Dance Studio. As we were playing on the beta this weekend, we noticed our Garrison followers had abilities that were a bit more humorous than usual and poking fun at each class.

You can check out our pastposts to see images of the old character selection screen.

Gaze of the Black Prince Returns

Blizzard has posted that Gaze of the Black Prince will return on Thursday, August 14, running for a little under two weeks until August 26. This buff increases reputation gains with the Black Prince, but more importantly increases the drop rate of all the items needed for the Legendary Cloak quest.

Beginning Thursday, August 14 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, through Tuesday, August 26 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, we’ll be applying the Gaze of the Black Prince buff which will increase the reputation gained with the Black Prince by 100%. It will also increase the chance of obtaining items from his foes needed as a part of the Legendary Cloak quest line including: the Secrets of the Empire, Sigil of Wisdom, Sigil of Power, or Titan Runestones.

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Comment by Okeman

How cool would it be if worgen druids would be half wolf and half man instead of being half cat.The correct answer is cool as duck

Comment by Ironicbay

on 2014-08-11T11:16:08-05:00

Emerald drake ? Is this real life ? I've been waiting for this one forever. Time to get all the mounts !

Comment by smcn

on 2014-08-11T11:16:33-05:00

Call me Buzz Killington but I hope those tooltips are just temporary. Much too fourth-wall breaking for my taste. And if not, c'est la vie. "You don't have to read them!" etc.

Comment by lovelywaz

on 2014-08-11T11:17:31-05:00

Many puns .... handle it !

Comment by coolfreezer

on 2014-08-11T11:23:32-05:00

the 2 drakes that have been missing for years now, was wondering when they were to be added. :D

Comment by Sounalius

on 2014-08-11T11:24:04-05:00

CoS still uses a worgen skeleton, way to be unique blizzard.

Comment by Mellondog

on 2014-08-11T11:25:38-05:00

Claws of Shirvallah model still has a broken neck. :/

Comment by Alfa

on 2014-08-11T11:29:56-05:00

45 more mounts to go!

Well 41 once the other challenge mode ones are available and the corehound :)

But, I still would've loved something more than just a reskin. Like a 3 person mount of some sort

Comment by Evwan

on 2014-08-11T11:40:33-05:00

In my opinion the emerald drake seems like a lazy choice for an annoying achievement like that one, i mean yeah that "skin" its one of the missing ones but still we have like a bazillion of those drakes already and there's not even a small significant difference not even a tiny wink for an achievement mount, but again that's just my opinion as well as how i don't like the Shirvallah model seems a bit poor compared with all the new changes they hav been adding to characters its like an old-ultra-buffed-troll model even with the weird neck thing.

Comment by Kierazer

on 2014-08-11T11:41:30-05:00

Oh yeah another drake.....

Comment by Nazthori

on 2014-08-11T11:45:20-05:00

FINALLY GREEN DRAKE!

Comment by Alfa

on 2014-08-11T11:47:45-05:00

In my opinion the emerald drake seems like a lazy choice for an annoying achievement like that one, i mean yeah that "skin" its one of the missing ones but still we have like a bazillion of those drakes already and there's not even a small significant difference not even a tiny wink for an achievement mount, but again that's just my opinion as well as how i don't like the Shirvallah model seems a bit poor compared with all the new changes they hav been adding to characters its like an old-ultra-buffed-troll model even with the weird neck thing.

Right? Like give me something that someone will know its rarity!

Comment by perculia

on 2014-08-11T11:54:07-05:00

Personally I would prefer a drake that was a bit more unique for 250. At least have it breathe special green fire.

Also I think with no flying in Draenor at launch, this mount could look a little silly just walking on the ground. Give us a really awesome ground mount to use.

Comment by Sflange

on 2014-08-11T12:07:10-05:00

Personally I would prefer a drake that was a bit more unique for 250. At least have it breathe special green fire.

Also I think with no flying in Draenor at launch, this mount could look a little silly just walking on the ground. Give us a really awesome ground mount to use.

^This. Immediately thought of my character riding Epicus Maximus.

Comment by thekaizi

on 2014-08-11T12:11:31-05:00

Personally I would prefer a drake that was a bit more unique for 250. At least have it breathe special green fire.

Also I think with no flying in Draenor at launch, this mount could look a little silly just walking on the ground. Give us a really awesome ground mount to use.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. dont get me wrong the sould find a way to put the green one in but who is gonnaknow thas the 250 mount. Even like ppl said on twotter do the epoch ones at least the are unique in color. Im just tired of not even wanting tl ride the achievement mounts.

Comment by Gammageddeon

on 2014-08-11T12:17:46-05:00

Wow! The new tauren female in those facial displays look fantastic! Great job bliz!

Comment by Munglunch

on 2014-08-11T12:18:19-05:00

Sprint: Used by a rogue to escape harm's way. Also used to move quickly between the mailbox and auction house.